In Ito's view, the Satsuma samurai, who were united by Saigo Takamori as the spiritual leader, showed a spirit of "steadfastness and servant" that was far superior to that of the government army organized by civilians.

Although the war had been going on for half a year, the Satsuma army under Saigo Takamori had strict discipline and did not commit any crimes against the common people wherever they went, while government officers and soldiers were forcibly conscripted and harassed everywhere.

And after Saigo Takamori died in the battle of Moss Bay after his younger brother Saigo, the leader of the Moss Army, died in Moss Bay, he did not hide his mistakes, but bluntly said the wrongs of this Moss Bay adventure, and appealed for the unfair treatment of the captured soldiers of the Moss Army after returning to Japan, which moved Ito Yunao.

In the eyes of him and many others, the highly respected Saigo Takamori can be described as a perfect person.

The battle of Moss failed, and the two famous brothers of the Ito family, Rear Admiral Ito Yuma, the commander of the Navy of the Moss Army, and the captain of the ironclad ship "To", Ito Yuhyung, were all dismissed from their posts and quit the navy.

Now, he and his fellow Ito Yuhyung can be said to be enemies, but Ito Yunao does not regret it.

To be able to follow under Saigo Takamori, Ito considers himself lucky.

In the midst of the many samurai, he found himself.

What's more, he met the Qianguo man who was convinced by all the samurai of Satsuma - Lin Yiqing.

It was this person who found his own difference among many ordinary lower-level officers and soldiers, and put himself and several like-minded comrades of his own. Recruited into the Sea Surprise Team.

"You're going to start an era. Ito-kun. When Lin Yiqing first pointed out to him the human-powered submarine named "Canglong Maru". That's what I said.

"This submarine is still very incomplete, and it can only be operated by manpower at present, and those who operate it need to take a lot of risks, that is, unless they are brave people, they cannot operate it." Lin Yiqing said, "But I'm sure of it. In the future naval battle, it will be indispensable. ”

"The biggest advantage of submarines is that they can attack from underwater." Lin Yiqing explained to himself the great value of this submarine, "You know, Ito-kun, even if it is a samurai with thick armor like the enemy's 'Fuso' ironclad ship, the underwater part of the hull is not protected by armor. ”

"Our two ironclad ships with large-caliber heavy guns, 'Hiei' and 'Kongo' and 'Fuso', have engaged many times, and our shells have never been able to penetrate its thick ironclad, but. I can be sure that it can't resist the underwater blow of the 'Soryu Pill'. ”

"The threat posed by the Fuso is great to our army. As long as it exists, our army's sea passage may be cut off, so it must be sunk, Ito-kun. And the weapon to sink it is in your hands. ”

"You're going to change history, Ito-kun."

Ito lost count of how many times he and his friends had trained on the submarine, and how many dangerous moments he had experienced.

Now, it's finally time to go into battle yourself.

By the time the carriage reached the docks, it was nearly evening. Ito Yu got out of the carriage and smelled the thick smell of gunpowder smoke coming from the air.

He looked at the sea in the distance and immediately understood what was happening.

"Ito-kun, this is where the enemy ship is." A Satsuma officer unfolded the map on the table and pointed it out to Ito Yu, "The stern of the enemy ship was damaged by our pole mineboat, but now it has regained its ability to move, and just now, at 4:22, the enemy ship began to move again, heading for the open sea, but now it has stopped again. ”

"Oh? For what reason did the enemy ship stop? You know? Ito asked.

"In order to prevent the enemy ship from escaping, while the enemy ship was injured and unable to move, our army urgently laid a large number of fishing nets on the channel, and the enemy ship stopped again, it should be that the propeller was entangled in the fishing net." The officer replied.

"It's a fishing net...... Ito Yu remembered that when he was training in the open sea with the "Soryu Maru", the propeller was also entangled in the fishing net discarded by the fishermen, and he was unable to move, and it was he who ordered the floating, and then he went into the water with two sailors and cut the fishing net with a knife, so that the "Soryu Maru" regained its mobility.

However, just as he and his companions were about to return to the boat, they didn't want to run into the shark, but fortunately the three of them moved quickly and entered the submarine before the shark pounced.

"But Ito-kun don't worry, after discovering that the propeller of the enemy ship was entangled in fishing nets, in order to prevent our ships from being entangled in fishing nets, our army has dispatched small boats to recover all the fishing nets that have been cast." The officer thought that Ito was worried that his submarine would become entangled in his own fishing nets, and immediately said, "Ito-kun can attack with confidence." ”

"General Lin's order, when is the attack?" Ito asked calmly.

"General Hayashi's order is to ask Ito-kun to launch an attack after dark." The officer took Lin Yiqing's warrant to Ito Yu and looked at it directly, "The specific time is up to Ito-kun to decide." ”

"For the sake of safety, General Lin asked our boat to attack after dark." Ito Yu looked straight at the warrant, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, then looked up at the sky, "Actually, now is the best time to attack, since General Lin has decided to decide the attack time at my own discretion, then I have decided to attack now." ”

"If you attack now, it will be easy for enemy ships to spot, right?" The officer looked at the sunset that had not yet set on the horizon and said with some concern.

"The sun has not yet set, and our boat is moving in the direction of the sun, and it is easy to find the position of the enemy ship, and the lookout of the enemy ship is not easy to find the position of our ship because it is facing the sun, and our boat can calmly attack." Ito said, pointing directly at the map.

"Yours is yours! Ito-kun! The officer said happily, "Then please Ito-kun hurry up!" ”

Ito nodded straight, beckoned his men, and walked towards the long pier trestle.

A long wooden trestle leads to the sea. Ito and ten of his subordinates walked quickly to the bridgehead. The cigar-like "Soryu Maru" is moored there. Two maintenance crews are putting the finishing touches on the submarine.

"No problem, right?" Ito asked straight to the maintenance staff.

"No problem, everything is fine with the submarine, Ito-kun." One of the maintenance workers saw them arrive and asked, "What, are you going to leave now?" ”

"Yes, we're going to attack the enemy ships now." Ito replied in the affirmative.

The two maintenance crews immediately left the submarine, and Ito stepped into the submarine first. Then ten subordinates also entered in turn, and each came to his post.

After a quick check of whether the hatches were tightly closed, Ito went straight to the command compartment of the submarine, looked outside through the observation window, and gestured to the maintenance personnel.

The maintenance crew untied the cable, and Ito gave the order to set sail, and several sailors shook the huge rocker vigorously, and the propeller on the tail of the submarine slowly rotated, pushing the submarine towards the sea.

After driving forward for a while, Ito ordered to adjust the course. Heading straight for the "Fuso" in the distance, the submarine had not yet dived. From afar, it looks like a huge dead wood stake floating on the sea.

"The 'Soryu Maru' has been dispatched, General." A herald warrior reported to Lin Yiqing.

Lin Yiqing listened to the report, his brows furrowed slightly, but when his eyes fell on the sunset that had gradually set in the distance, he seemed to understand something, his brows relaxed, he nodded, and did not say anything.

"Damn fishing nets! Damn traitor! ”

At this time, at the stern of the "Fuso", Inoue Yoshixin looked at the divers who jumped into the sea one by one, and couldn't help but jump to his feet and curse.

After the efforts of the damage management team, the "Fuso" finally regained its mobility, and Inoue Yoshixin couldn't wait to order to leave, but what he didn't expect was that the "Fuso" only walked for a while, and the propeller was entangled by a large number of fishing nets that came out of nowhere, and it couldn't move!

Inoue Yoshishin and Tsuboi Kozo didn't understand where these nets came from, and in their own confusion, the Satsuma people gave them the answer.

Suddenly a number of small boats appeared in the port of Osaka, and the people on these small boats used long hook-like things to fish out all the nets with floats in the sea.

Seeing this scene, Inoue Yoshixin and Tsuboi Kozo understood what was going on with the smoke released by the "Hiei" and "King Kong" just now.

This smoke is specially used to cover these small boats that lay fishing nets!

Now, having seen the Fuso entangled in the nets, they decided that they had achieved their goal, and in order to keep the ships that attacked next from being hindered by the nets, they began to clear the nets again!

Seeing the mocking expressions of the people on the boats, Inoue Ryoshi went crazy with anger and ordered to fire at the boats, but was stopped by Kozo Tsubori.

Tsuboi's reason was that if the boats were bombarded and they were not allowed to clear the excess fishing nets, even if the "Fuso" untied the fishing nets, it would be easy for them to become entangled in the fishing nets again on the way out of the harbor, so it would be better for them to clear the channel for the "Fuso" themselves.

After listening to Tsuboi Kozo's words, Inoue Ryoshin thought it was reasonable, so he took back the order.

However, both Inoue Yoshishin and Tsuboi Kozo knew that the enemy was only afraid of another unexpected attack next, because they were always on guard against the new moves of the Satsuma army while sending many divers into the water to clear the fishing nets.

But what surprised them was that the Satsuma army remained silent.

Soon, the small boats that recovered the nets had completed their operations and disappeared, and silence returned to the sea, and in the distance, not only did the "Hiei" and "King Kong," which had been eyeing the "Fuso," also take no action, but the enemy pole mineboats, which Inoue Yoshishin and Tsuboi Kozo were most worried about, did not appear.

What exactly does the enemy want to do?

The sun gradually set, only the bloody sunset remained, and seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, and the "Fuso" had no sign of being able to set sail again, Inoue Liangxin was very anxious.

At this time, the lookouts of the "Fuso" widened their eyes one by one, watching the movements of the enemy ships on the sea, and the gunners were nervously guarding the gun emplacements, preparing for battle at any time, and the atmosphere on the whole ship was tense and depressing.

Unfortunately, no one paid attention to what was happening beneath the surface of the sea.

"Start diving."

In the "Soryu Maru", Ito Yu looked directly at the figure of the "Fuso" ship that was gradually becoming clearer, and ordered in a deep voice.

The two sailors twisted the lever hard. Slowly open the water tank. A large amount of seawater poured into the tank. With a "creaking" sound, the hull of the "Soryu Maru" slowly sank into the seawater.

Looking at the sea water flooding the observation window overhead, Ito raised his periscope.

At this time, the snorkel had been retracted, the air in the boat suddenly became dull, and the sailors shook the propeller stick vigorously, driving the "Soryu Maru" to rush forward, due to the accelerated speed, the "Soryu Maru" was even faster underwater than on the water.

Ito Yu stared straight into the periscope. Watching the shadow of the "Fuso" slowly grow larger, his heart also became excited.

The enemy ship, which the capital ship has not been able to solve after many days of hard fighting, will now be blown up and sunk by his own hands, but it will be exciting to think about it!

"Stretch out the thunder rod." Ito ordered in a hoarse voice.

Two sailors ran to the bow of the boat and pushed the mine pole forward with all their might. If anyone sees the "Soryu Maru" underwater now, they will find that its blunt bow slowly sticks out a long pole with a pointed mine at the front, like the horned teeth of a narwhal.

At this time, the "Soryu Maru" was gradually approaching the "Fuso," but neither the officers and men on the ship nor the divers who cut the fishing nets underwater discovered that the great danger had come.

With the desperate efforts of the divers. The fishing net that entangled the propeller of the "Fuso" was finally cut, and I watched the large mass of fishing nets sink to the bottom of the sea. The divers crouching at the stern of the ship breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, a diver seemed to notice that there seemed to be a huge whale-like object slowly approaching in the chaotic sea not far away, his companions did not find it, and were glad to remove the fishing net, the diver desperately waved his hand to his companions, and the companions looked at him with some surprise, but did not understand what he meant.

The diver turned around and pointed in one direction, and the divers saw the "Soryu Maru" slowly approaching, and couldn't help but widen their eyes in horror.

At this time, because of the close distance, not only the underwater divers discovered the "Soryu Maru", but the sailors on the deck of the "Fuso" also saw the approaching submarine.

"There are enemies underwater!" Some of the sailors shouted in panic.

"The enemy is underwater? What will happen underwater? Inoue walked away from the stern of the ship in amazement and ran to the port side of the "Fuso", where he immediately saw the narwhal-like object under the water.

"It's a submarine!" Inoue Yoshika's face turned pale all of a sudden, "Fire!" Hurry up! ”

Despite his orders, no one moved - not because the gunners of the "Fuso" disobeyed the order, but because the enemy's submarine was under water and had rushed to a position extremely close to the "Fuso", and in this blind spot, all the guns on the ship could not be fired.

Inoue Ryoshin shouted, pulled out his pistol and slammed the trigger on the enemy submarine underwater, and some sailors also took their rifles and shot underwater, but such an attack obviously had no effect.

The mine pole of the "Soryu Maru" hit the underwater hull of the "Fuso", and Ito Yunao felt the vibration of the submarine under his feet, and immediately pressed the button of the electric device to detonate the mine.

As if battering rams were striking the city walls, the hull of the "Fuso" jerked upward, first to the right, and then to the left.

Inoue Yoshishin felt a sharp tremor under his feet, and then his body flew up like a cloud, and then fell heavily on the deck, because he was far away from the location of the explosion, he was not thrown into the sea, and the sailors of the "Fuso" who were closer to the explosion point were not as lucky as their commanders, some of them were shocked on the spot and bled to death, and some were thrown directly into the sea.

At this moment, the "Fuso" was hit hard like never before.

Like the shocked Inoue Yoshishin, the underwater attacker "Soryu Maru" was not very comfortable, and the huge shock wave hit the submarine, pushing the submarine away fiercely, rushing far away, and at the moment of the explosion, all the sailors in the boat could not stand and fell.

Ito hit his head against a wall and bled out, but he ignored his injuries and gave the order loudly.

The fallen sailors got up again, threw themselves on the joystick, and according to Ito Yunao's order, they shook vigorously in the opposite direction, manipulating the "Soryu Maru" to reverse the car, but to their horror, the "Soryu Maru" not only did not move backwards, but slowly moved forward.

Ito realized that this was a hole in the enemy ship that had been blown open and a large amount of water was entering the water, and the inhaled water caused the hull of the "Soryu Maru" to continue to approach the hull of the enemy ship, and he knew that if he could not get out as soon as possible, he was afraid that the "Soryu Maru" would become a burial object for the enemy ship.

"Drain up!" Ito ordered loudly.

The reason why this order was given was because in many previous exercises, Lin Yiqing warned him that such a situation might occur, and gave a corresponding solution - the purpose of floating the water is to use the effect of buoyancy, coupled with the power of the submarine itself, to get rid of the attraction of the current.

The two sailors pressed down the water tank lever to drain the water in the tank, and Ito Yunao ran to the sailors, and shook the rocker in the opposite direction with them, and soon, the "Soryu Maru" broke away from the attraction of the water and sailed backwards quickly.

"Stop draining! No need to float up! Feeling drawn away from the current, Ito quickly ordered.

The two sailors in charge of the operation of the tank immediately stopped, and they both knew what Ito meant - if he surfaced too close to the enemy ship, it was likely to attract artillery fire from the enemy ship. (To be continued......)

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